All Our Yesterdays is a solo presentation of recent paintings by Katya Granova curated by Róisín McQueirns. The exhibition opens with a Private View and accompanying dance performance by the artist in response to the photographs at the core of her expanded practice.
Granova's paintings are informed by found photographs sourced from family albums, government archives and flea markets. She responds with colour and brushwork to explore the tension between presence and absence on large-scale canvasses.
"New yesterdays appear every day. Old yesterdays are stored in the dusty depot of unstable human memory, guarded by forces that can alter them. It sounds like a repressive detention. It sounds like a bright new future. Yesterdays never return from the depot."
Born in the Soviet Union shortly before its collapse, Granova's formative years were defined by a constant shift in historical perspectives and contradictions in remembered realities. The subjects in her paintings remain anonymous, distinction between individual figures, foreground and background, deliberately blurred by the artist’s intervention.
With the title alluding to both Shakespeare's Macbeth and an episode of Star Trek, All Our Yesterdays challenges notions of linear time and the subjectivity of history.
The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with Shtager Outdoor and is open on Friday 6th to Monday 9th March from 10am to 6pm.
Private View & Performance: Thursday 5th March, 6-9pm